Project mobility in freetime and nightlife

Project Mobility in free time and Nightlife

In this project Luis and his exchange student Manik, Gerrit, Henriette and Friederike dealt with the mobility in free time and nightlife by comparing the Indian and the German point of view.

Our declared aim was the elaboration of a presentation for Wednesday the June 19th. It was the many points of contact which made this topic very interesting and our choice turned out to be right attention-grabbing and remarkable. Free time and nightlife combined with mobility is always a current topic in a teenager`s life all over the world, but we were interested whether there were differences in the way of organizing your free time in India and Germany. First we had to develop our goals and the way of reaching our aims for having a well prepared structure. What we also did on the first day were short interviews with Indian and German students to get an overview of our topic. To analyze those different opinions later we filmed these interviews. We also started a survey with German and Indian students for developing statistics. These statistics were drawn on big papers to show them at the presentation.  We got further information from a reliable source; an internet platform from the German government, the “Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung”. On the one hand we knew that young adults all over the world have kind of the same ideas of how to organize their free time and the nightlife. But it was obvious that there are huge differences in the mobility and the structuring of free time and nightlife on the other hand. The physical mobility for example: Living in Germany means that you generally have the opportunity to move around in your environment either individually or by public transportation safely, because the infrastructure is one of the most elaborated in the world. Students in India usually do not use the public transportation, but bicycles or small moppets. The infrastructure is not a modern and dense transport network, which is a handicap Indian students also have to deal with in their free time. This is a reason why big groups of students meet after school at friends` homes. They often watch movies or just hang out together. Manik and other students told us that they also have the social mobility in free time, which means that it does not depend on your religious orientation or other ethic or social backgrounds. Furthermore they told us that this fact becomes obvious in their free time because everyone meets each other. It does not matter where you are coming from. Comparing this opinion to the facts which we read on the internet site of the “Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung” we had to discover that there are huge differences in the way of thinking, because on this website the authors say that it does matter from which social group you come from and how the income of people looks like. Moreover you could read that this becomes obvious in the everyday life of the Indians. During these three days we realized that mobility is a topic which is very current and of importance for all of us. It was also interesting to analyze and work with statements and facts straight from the horse's mouth. These different points of view and the big interest from German and Indian students made our project very remarkable. At the end we had established a presentation, but it was more important what we really learned by making this project: Mobility is a topic with so many points of contact with human lives. Before this project we had not thought that it is so important, especially for the youth. In their free time and in their nightlife mobility becomes a big deal.